Shortwave listening is getting as bad as scanner monitoring. Not much left on SW besides religious and forget about scanners. The little bumfark one square mile town I live in just went digital encrypted. Even the DPW is on the new system. I feel served and protected.

offacue:Shortwave listening is getting as bad as scanner monitoring. Not much left on SW besides religious and forget about scanners. The little bumfark one square mile town I live in just went digital encrypted. Even the DPW is on the new system. I feel served and protected.

Wouldn't you just need a modern scanner with "digital trunking" or whatever?

I mean, a few years back I bought a Rat Shack base station scanner for btw 100 and 150 iirc and it does the digital trunking thing for my mid to large sized city. They even programmed it for me...That said, SW listening is not as much fun as it used to be.

Oztemprom:offacue: Shortwave listening is getting as bad as scanner monitoring. Not much left on SW besides religious and forget about scanners. The little bumfark one square mile town I live in just went digital encrypted. Even the DPW is on the new system. I feel served and protected.

Wouldn't you just need a modern scanner with "digital trunking" or whatever?

I mean, a few years back I bought a Rat Shack base station scanner for btw 100 and 150 iirc and it does the digital trunking thing for my mid to large sized city. They even programmed it for me...That said, SW listening is not as much fun as it used to be.

Indeed. While it is becoming more common, most police departments and the like (I find it highly unlikely the DPW anywhere is actually encrypting) are not encrypted, just digital.

bodangly:Indeed. While it is becoming more common, most police departments and the like (I find it highly unlikely the DPW anywhere is actually encrypting) are not encrypted, just digital.

Remember the Clipper Chip, and how it was going to give US consumers encrypted cell phone lines? And remember how everyone complained about government digital key escrow, so the feds killed the whole idea, and so now we don't have any kind of cheap universally secure cell phones?

Perhaps the changes were necessary and overdue, said Alexander Morozov, director of the Institute of Media Research. But he said all would have been accepted better had staff members been given the opportunity to see whether they could fit into the new strategy

Perhaps? Sorry, it's been more than 20 years since the fall of communism in Europe, and nearly the same amount of time since they should have shifted to a web-based strategy if they even needed to continue such a thing.

Maybe they shouldn't have built that fancy new building in the outskirts of Prague...

bodangly:Oztemprom: offacue: Shortwave listening is getting as bad as scanner monitoring. Not much left on SW besides religious and forget about scanners. The little bumfark one square mile town I live in just went digital encrypted. Even the DPW is on the new system. I feel served and protected.

Wouldn't you just need a modern scanner with "digital trunking" or whatever?

I mean, a few years back I bought a Rat Shack base station scanner for btw 100 and 150 iirc and it does the digital trunking thing for my mid to large sized city. They even programmed it for me...That said, SW listening is not as much fun as it used to be.Indeed. While it is becoming more common, most police departments and the like (I find it highly unlikely the DPW anywhere is actually encrypting) are not encrypted, just digital.

Late coming back here but if you happen to return.... Nope, we're encrypted. Hooked onto Piscataway's radios and using them for dispatch. Here's a discussion about it. I'm in Dunellen and I think it starts around halfway through page 3.

Cajnik:Perhaps? Sorry, it's been more than 20 years since the fall of communism in Europe, and nearly the same amount of time since they should have shifted to a web-based strategy if they even needed to continue such a thing.

Yep. Everyone has a computer and high speed line. Especially in the outskirts of Russia.